Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

It is not that the "young" are more aggressive risk takers than olders ones & more "open to ideas". Most of those older open-minded aggressive risk takers* are now cashiers at the local museum, food demonstrators at Costco, or in a cemetery after some fatal collision. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@digkabri I hold myself partly responsible — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

It is not that the "young" are more aggressive risk takers than olders ones & more "open to ideas". Most of those older open-minded aggressive risk takers* are now cashiers at the local museum, food demonstrators at Costco, or in some cemetery after some fatal collision. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RULE: You can be loyal to a person, a private (not public) individual. Never to a stock, a company, or, centrally, an idea. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

The wise, like the fool, makes mistakes. The difference is that the wise is prepared & knows way ahead of time the cost of every mistake. For the wise, a mistake is local; for the fool, the mistake is global.* *There is a technical dimension, see my election forecasting thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

The wise person, like the fool, makes mistakes. The difference is that the wise is prepared & knows ahead of time the cost of every mistake. For the wise, a mistake is local; for the wise, a mistake is global.* *There is a technical dimension, see my election forecasting thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@EmmetPeppers Less than baseball cards — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) Yes I had hopes for crypto but it did not turn out to be what I expected and, as I got deeper into the blockchain, I saw it was a scam for miswired technoheads. I have never been blinded by hope. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @SrinivasR1729: Simple looking, easy proving but elegant integrals. Have fun! #Math #Maths #weekendfun https://t.co/NpJPq2Sb8O — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@SrinivasR1729 Z2 for the brain https://t.co/tcu4PkcZp6 — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

A lower bound estimate of 28.7% of my followers don't understand logical paradoxes. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Not all dimwits do crypto, but all crypto people are dimwits, that is, dumb in a special way: there is a missing wire somewhere in (for some) an otherwise functioning brain. You can use crypto on an CV as a marker for future blowup. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Not all dimwits do crypto, but all crypto people are dimwits, that is, dumb in a special way: there is a missing wire somewhere in (for some) an otherwise functioning brain. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Not all dimwits do crypto, but all crypto people are dimwits, that is, dumb in a special way: there is a missing wire somewhere in an otherwise functioning brain. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@blackgiordano @PTetlock @RichmanRonald Beta is universal for one mode in [0,1] (m.g. bounded); mixtures of 2 betas for bimodal, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

"Technology is at its best when it is invisible" Antifragile — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Thanks all participants. So far, the fruits of that meeting. A response to @PTetlock's handwaving claims and a great new result initiated with an intuition by @RichmanRonald. https://t.co/TvYIAQHGaf — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

BS busting of the morning: There were no tomatoes and potatoes in Ancient Sumer. [I used to trust this site. Scholarship --like finance -- is about trust.] — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Should Twitter remove the voting feature? — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Should Twitter allow voting? — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@goosejackson1 Let me reveal how you are a bullshitter. In AA you could be put to death for your speech. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@goosejackson1 I block idiots. "Freedom of Speech" is not an Ancient Athenian concept. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@modernplainsman @dvassallo Yes. Scale is not sufficient; it must become a utility for such a rule to apply. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

People don't get what freedom means. Twitter is free to ban you for referring to other sites; just as if you owned a site you wd be free to ban people from mentioning Twitter, or mispelling the name of rivers. Your mistake is to *depend* on someone else who can decide your fate. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

RT @contentphilia: "In a public debate, it is the one whose intelligence is closest to that of the audience who wins." @nntaleb — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@StanislasBerton @FBoisard1533 Vous êtes vraiment tous les deux des imbéciles finis. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

The more intelligent the book review sounds, the lower the probability that the reviewer has read the book. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) I guess that's the transaction 2012-2022 https://t.co/265hE3LsBE — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

Get ready. Last week, in NYC, a chunk of residential building was sold 42% lower than its acquisition price (2012, at a discount owing to the crash). — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@michaelbassGI This one. https://t.co/BSuPzNEjRB — PolitiTweet.org